Which of the following is another name for the fifth month of the lunar calendar? A Xingyue B Taoyue C Liu Yue D Lianyue

Which of the following is another name for the fifth month of the lunar calendar? A apricot month b peach month c pomegranate month d lotus month is introduced as follows:

Apricot Moon May is the month when apricot blossoms are in full bloom, so it is called Apricot Moon.

The nicknames of May in the lunar calendar are midsummer, poisonous month, evil month, Puyue and June.

1, midsummer

In terms of seasons, the fifth month of the lunar calendar is in midsummer, so it is also called "midsummer". According to the order of the twelve months, May is the "noon" month, which is the month from summer to Sunday, so the beginning of May is the most prosperous time of the year (it begins to decline from summer to Sunday).

2. Bad month

In fact, this is because the weather in summer is hot and dry, people are easy to get sick and plague is easy to spread, snakes and insects are easy to breed and bite people, so we should be very careful, which makes people gradually form the custom of "avoiding the five poisons" and "hiding from the Dragon Boat Festival".

3. Pu Yue

Grass is flourishing in May, and it is the most abundant in May. Acorus calamus, as one of the "four elegant flowers", grows on the riverside, is slim, green and fragrant, and is deeply loved by people. Drinking calamus wine and inserting calamus leaves has also become an important custom of exorcism on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. People also call May "Puyue".

4. Liu Yue

Liu Yue is named after the pomegranate flowers in May, and Han Yu has a poem "The pomegranate flowers in May bloom brilliantly". In the early May of ancient times, little girls in Beijing wore orange or scarlet pomegranate flowers as hairpins and dressed themselves beautifully. Later, they called the fifth day of the fifth lunar month "Daughter's Day".

5, poison month

Early May is the peak of sunshine in a year (it begins to decline in summer). Excessive yang is not necessarily a good thing, so May is also called "poison month".

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May

May is the fifth month of the Gregorian calendar year, and it is a big month. * * * There is 3 1 day. "May" is also called "high moon". In the northern hemisphere, May is the third month of spring. There are two solar terms this month: Long Summer and Xiaoman. The festivals in May mainly include: May 1st International Labor Day, May 4th Youth Day and Mother's Day.

May's English name probably comes from Maya (called Maius in Latin), the goddess who specializes in spring and life in Roman mythology, or Bona Dea, the goddess who celebrates festivals in May, or maiores (meaning "older people") in Latin.

The nicknames of May are: Liu Yue, Duanyue, October, Xingyue, Huang Yue, Puyue, Gaoyue, Lanyue, Busy Moon, Xia Yue, Quail Moon, Midsummer, Yu Ming, Xiawu, Light Punishment, China and Japan. "Ming Qu" in The Book of Songs records "Ming Qu in May", and the song is cicada. It means that cicadas broke ground and climbed trees in May, and started the first voiceless song in summer, so May was nicknamed "Mingqu".